Improvement in harness-collar pads



UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIcE.

MARTIN KLEIN, 0E sT. PETER, imNEEsoTA.V

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS- COLLAR PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,144;` dated December 14, 1875; applicationv filed 4 August 14, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN KLEIN, of St. Peter, in the county of Nicollet and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Collar-Pads; and I do herein collar-pads for draft-animals, the object ofV which is to prevent the hair of the lower part ot' the neck from being rubbed o' by the attrition of the hame-strings and collar-straps.

The nature of the invention consists in a collar-pad tree, formed of two or more plates ot' sheetiron, of elliptical form, which are bent inV an arc of a circle, riveted together, and then interposed between two leather covers, which latter are stitched, riveted, or otherwise rigidly secured together, whereby a sprin gy pad is torn-led, possessing a degree of strength adequate to resisting strain, and incapable of becoming flabby' when wet, yas will be hereinafter more fully explained and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, A designates my improved collar-pad, the tree of which is composed of three leaves ot' sheet metal, a, a1 a2, superposed the one upon the other, and each upper one smaller than the one next below. These plates are elliptical in forni, and are vriveted. together after having been bent in the arc'of a circle, so that all displacement relative to each other is eectually prevented.

` They are thus endowed with considerable elasticity, and are yet sufciently rigid and strong to resist strain under circumstances hereinafter explained. The lowermost plate a of the `its Whole extent, forming a flange, b, of rounding form, and eft'eetually destroying the rough edge which would have existed had not this part been upturned. The tree above described is inclosed between two leather covers,`B C, the former of which, being the upper one, is but slightly larger than plate a of the pad, while the lower one is of sufficient size to allow a flange, c, to be formed by turning up its lateral edges, as shown in Fig. 1. These covers are put around the tree and stitchedtogether when wet, so that in drying the leather ot' which they may be made will shrink and coliform to the curvature of the tree, thus preventing the latter from working loose in the said covers.

rlhe pad is designed to be put on the neck of the horse in front of its Withers, sov that the ends of the collar may be received in it 5 con` sequently, when the ends of the said collar arestrapped, or otherwise Yforcibly united, the strap or straps used will be prevented from galling the neck or rubbing oi' the hair 'and mane by means ot' the interposed pad,

which, being of curved form and sutticiently rigid, will at no time be clamped, as it were, to the animals neck by the drawing together of the ends ot' the collar.`

In practice, I sometimes use a transverse binder-strap, D, which is secured to the cover by means of spaced staples d, which may be replaced by suitable rivets, to vwhich strap the straps used to unite the ends ot' the collar and llames may be secured, thus preventing the pad from getting from under the collar should flanges c on the edges of the lower cover, prove inadequate.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A horse-collarpad composed of a series of metal leaves, a al a2, riveted togetherand intei-posed between leather covers, substantialu ly as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

MARTIN KLEIN. Witnesses:

H. S. ToMLINsoN, E. R. MOORE. 

